Family Genealogy Quotes

#1. I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things.

Shannon Miller

#2. I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

Joe Perry

#3. femelu could not understand this, her mother's ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#4. Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Eleanor Brownn

#5. All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Christopher Moore

#6. I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years
ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family
history.

Nola Ochs

#7. A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.

Jo Ann V. Glim

#8. I wish that I would have asked my grandparents more about their early lives in Italy when I had the chance to do so.

Marianne Perry

#9. Every family's its own trip to China.

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. The pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.

Amin Maalouf

#11. The word "actually," like its cousin "frankly," should, by itself, be a tip-off to most people that what is to follow is a blatant lie - but it isn't.

Alan Bradley

#12. We are all the product of things we've never seen and people we never met. In fact, if just one little detail had been changed in their lives, we may not even exist!

Melanie Johnston

#13. A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

Confucius

#14. Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.

Bobby Darnell

#15. You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.

Demi Lovato

#16. I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone ...

Mickey Rourke

#17. Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?

William Rainey Harper

#18. The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

Joan Wickersham

#19. Everyone has a story. Every story matters.

Nicole Wedemeyer Miller

#20. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity.

William Shakespeare

#21. A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.

James G. Leyburn

#22. Look to the past to see what the future holds.

Celia Conrad

#23. History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

Ron Mayes

#24. Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

Florence King

#25. It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

Reid Hoffman

#26. Genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

Austin Kleon

#27. Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Tim Wise

#28. Hat the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Ellen Goodman

#29. The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#30. I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Fred Allen

#31. I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

Jack Kirby

#32. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.

Mark Lawrence

#33. A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

Robert A. Heinlein